My thanks to Marriedinmaine2 for all of his work in editing this story. Any mistakes that still exist were made after his final edit.
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After Michelle's last trip to Seattle for a weekend with Mike, he told her that he wanted her to leave me and marry him. He'd told her he couldn't go on sharing her so she had to make a choice. She had. She told him goodbye and came home, this time for good.
After she got home, we went to bed, both of us nervous about what our future might hold, but secure in our love for each other.
In the middle of the night, I woke up to Michelle crying. I put my arms around her and pulled her to me, asking her, "Do you want to talk about it?"
"I don't know, it's just so hard. I love him you know, but he wouldn't let me have you both. I tried to keep things as they were, but he was so insistent, that if I loved him he wanted me to leave you and marry him. I couldn't do that!"
"I know baby, I am really sorry it had to end. But I can't tell you how glad I am that you're home. I love you so much!"
"I love you too hon, I couldn't leave you, no matter what, and I never will!"
We kissed and gently made love, one of the sweetest feelings I've ever known.
The next morning, we both got up, ate a little breakfast and had to go to work. I spent a good share of my day trying to think how I was going to talk to Jacqui. There simply wasn't any way to gently break off with her, but even though Michelle and I hadn't talked about her, I knew it was going to come.
After I got home, I nervously paced, waiting for Michelle. I wanted to let her know I was going to Jacqui's and the reason why. Unfortunately, she had to work late. It was nearly two hours later than normal before she got home. When she got there, she apologized telling me that there was a case coming up tomorrow and she had needed stay in order to finish up some legal papers.
"I need to go to Jacqui's, hon, not too sure how long I'll be." Mondays are Jacqui's normal day off and I knew that this particular Monday evening, she was going to be home, waiting for me to bring her news.
"What are you going to tell her?"
"That I'm going to stop seeing her, that from now on, I'm all yours and yours alone."
She looked me straight in the eyes, took a couple minutes to speak, then told me, "No sweetheart, I don't want you to do that. I told you at the beginning that you and Jacqui didn't have anything to do with Mike and me. Just because I'm not going to be with Mike doesn't mean you and Jacqui can't still be together."
I looked at her in shock, trying to comprehend what she was saying to me, "You mean you don't want me to break up with her?"
"No sweetheart, I love that you and her care for each other like you do. I like her and want you to keep seeing her, even sleeping with her sometimes. Like I said, your relationship with her doesn't have anything to do with Mike and I've gotten to really like it when you come home and tell me what you and her do together, especially when we play it out."
After Michelle had spent that first weekend in a hotel with Mike in Seattle, she'd told me that she'd had fantasies of me being with another woman as well. She'd loved my story of how Jacqui had tried on clothes I was picking out for her at Victoria's Secret.
Later, when we were arranging another weekend for Mike to spend with Michelle, she'd insisted I ask Jacqui out the evening Mike was coming. She'd literally had to drag me to Victoria's Secret and forced me to ask Jacqui for a date. Then, not leaving well enough alone, when Jacqui suggested the possibility of me spending the night with her, Michelle had been the one to agree. I'd been too scared to even breathe, much less talk! Ever since then, Michelle had encouraged my relationship with Jacqui to bloom into a very hot love affair. I'd at least partially assumed it was to some degree a guilt reflex from her affair with Mike.
Now that Michelle wasn't seeing Mike any more, I'd naturally assumed Michelle would want my relationship with Jacqui to end as well. But she'd surprised me by telling me she didn't want our affair to end. I asked her, "Are you sure you won't be jealous?"
"Of course I'll be jealous. If I ever actually see her with you, I might feel like I want to scratch her eyes out!" Then, she looked at me, right in my eyes. "Someday I want to, you know."
"You want to what? Scratch her eyes out?"
"No, silly, I want to see her with you. I want to see you make love with her."
That surprised me a little. Michelle hadn't ever even hinted that she wanted to see me and Jacqui together. She went on, "I want to see what it's like, to feel the excitement and jealousy you felt when you saw me with Mike."
"You wouldn't scratch her eyes out?"
"I don't know, maybe!" She grinned at me.